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The Finnish company Vaisala WindCube Scan helps solar power plant operators detect and track ramps and gusts ahead of time – with high spatial and temporal resolution.
The solar association presented the latest version of its Operation & Maintenance: Best Practice Guidelines at the Solar Quality Summit Europe in Barcelona, co-organised with Intersolar.
Inion Software, who offer solar power plant monitoring solutions, will partner with Volter, a solar power plant developer from Romania. This cooperation is expected to result further foster the renewable energy sector in Europe.
The grid planning of the Estonian distribution grid operator Elektrilevi is being digitalised with the help of a smart grid platform. In the future, the connection verification process will be fully automated by the grid operator.
The software Excelation Assets by Dr Eckhardt + Partner keeps track of the immediate documentation of all completed maintenance tasks as well as reminders of upcoming deadlines.
With the LSI fault location set from Solartektor, the solar installer can exactly determine a possible fault in a solar array.
Trinamix from Ludwigshafen launches a mobile solution for fast material identification. This helps with fault detection and quality control.
In Japan, decentralised green power plants were combined to form virtual power plants. Using new technologies, the project partners have shown that a stable electricity grid can be realised even with volatile generators.
HyCleaner has attracted a lot of attention with its robot systems over the past years – not only in the solar industry but also in the field of cleaning facades and glass roofs. Now the company has announced additions to the management team.
A failure of satellite communication with wind turbines in Germany due to a cyber attack has demonstrated the stability of a decentrally organised electricity system. The plants then simply switch to autonomous control.
The LSI fault location set from Solartektor is not made for fault measurement, but for pinpoint location of the fault.
Sungrow, one of the largest manufacturers of PV inverters and ESS, introduces its new and updated commissioining process with iSolarCloud.
A joint study by the Leibniz Institute and the German Weather Service has shown that the yields of solar systems installed in different regions vary greatly in some cases. Dust particles in the air have a major influence.
The solar industry has experienced spectacular growth over the last decade – in parts of Europe, it looks set to triple current capacity by 2030. While the market takes advantage of this unprecedented opportunity for growth, the challenge now is how to ensure the long-term quality of solar projects.
Wholesaler Baywa r.e. has presented a further development of its planning tool Solar-Planit. In version 9.0, the capture of building dimensions is simplified by the aerial photo mode.
The monitoring solutions GPM Plus and GPM Horizon have been selected to manage over 300 plants in 17 Italian regions.
Guest article: Timo Möller, Vice President at Nova Source, about ensuring maximum energy returns on renewable assets through standardizing decentralized energy.
The Spanish solar software provider Rated Power has introduced the tool pvDesign 3.0. With the cloud-based solution, ground-mounted solar power plants can be automatically planned, designed and optimised within a few minutes.
SunBrush mobil has put three TrackFlex cleaning systems into operation in Uzbekistan for the first time.
The new Kostal Solar Portal was further developed as a relaunch with the Berlin PV monitoring specialist Solytic. With the new Solar Portal, the already more than 100,000 users receive a quick and comprehensible insight into the output of their photovoltaic systems.
Raycatch, a company that has developed an innovative AI-driven digital asset management system automating and optimizing solar PV assets, will launch a major upgrade at Intersolar Europe 2021.
SunBrush mobil cleaning equipment with the matching loader vehicles from Avant will now be available to solar park operators in South Africa and Namibia: the company for solar cleaning equipment has opened a joint service and sales location in Western Cape with the South African sales partner Avant SA.
Power management company Eaton announced that it is working with Microsoft to identify ways for data centers to monetize existing assets and integrate more renewable energy sources to help create a more sustainable and stable grid.
Grid stabilisation through variable electricity tariffs alone is not enough - the right app is needed to optimally manage the connected devices accordingly.
The BentoNet platform can be used to collect and process data from the power grid, while ensuring smart monitoring and control of decentralized energy flows.
